TRAIL Texas Records and Information Locator Servicehttp://castor.tsl.state.tx.us/trail/
TRAIL is a service of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission that was created through legislation amending the Publications Depository Law in order to address access and preservation of electronic publications for the state of Texas.

Center for American Historyhttp://www.cah.utexas.edu/index.html
The University of Texas at Austin's site that includes extensive guides and searching aids pertaining to Texas History, as well as American History.

Taylor County Historical Commission - Texashttp://www.abilene.com/taylorhist/
"The Taylor County Historical Commission was organized more than 40 years ago to remind residents of this West Texas county of their heritage, and to keep alive the names and places which are important."

Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museumhttp://www.texasranger.org/
"Official State Hall of Fame for the Texas Rangers, Official State Repository for Texas Ranger Memorabilia"

Texas Seaport Museum - Home of the 1877 Tall Ship ELISSAhttp://www.tsm-elissa.org/
"Texas Seaport Museum, a leader in maritime preservation and restoration, is home to the 1877 National Historic Landmark tall ship Elissa, and promotes genealogy research through its Galveston Immigration Database."

Whitehead Memorial Museumhttp://www.whitehead-museum.com/
"consists of a restored frontier village, and collections preserving the local heritage of the Val Verde County Community. Home of the Judge Roy Bean Society. . ."

The Texas Historical Commission: Texas Historic Atlas Siteshttp://atlas.thc.state.tx.us/
"The goal of the Atlas is to develop a database of the more than 250,000 historic and prehistoric sites recorded in Texas, and deliver most of that
information through the Web." Great Texas museum search tool on site.

NOVA: Voyage of Doomhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lasalle/
what archaeologists have learned about French explorer Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle's ship, La Belle, which sank off the coast of Texas in 1686, and the
artifacts it held... explore the issue of ownership of sunken ships.

The La Salle Shipwreck Projecthttp://www.thc.state.tx.us/belle/
an effort by the Texas Historical Commission to excavate, preserve and analyze the wreck of Belle, one of the ships brought to Texas by the French explorer La Salle during his final, disastrous expedition to North America in 1684-87. Belle was wrecked in Matagorda Bay, Texas in 1686, stranding La Salle and his men in the wilderness. The wreck was located and identified in the summer of 1995